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Why is the Claim that Dinosaurs Evolved into Birds an Unscientific Myth?

fanaticism. Dr. Storrs L. Olson, head of the famous U.S.
Smithsonian Institute's Ornithology Department, announced
that he had previously warned that the fossil was a forgery, but
that the magazine's executives had ignored him. In a letter he
wrote to Peter Raven of National Geographic, Olson wrote:

Prior to the publication of the article "Dinosaurs Take Wing"
in the July 1998 National Geographic, Lou Mazzatenta, the
photographer for Sloan's article, invited me to the National
Geographic Society to review his photographs of Chinese

fossils and to comment on the slant being given to the story.
At that time, I tried to interject the fact that strongly sup-
ported alternative viewpoints existed to what National
Geographic intended to present, but it eventually became
clear to me that National Geographic was not interested in
anything other than the prevailing dogma that birds
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evolved from dinosaurs. 43
In a statement in USA Today, Olson said, "The problem is,
at some point the fossil was known by Geographic to be a

fake, and that information was not revealed." 44 In other
words, he said that National Geographic maintained the decep-
tion, even though it knew that the fossil it was portraying as
proof of evolution was a forgery.

We must make it clear that this attitude of National
Geographic was not the first forgery that had been carried out in
the name of the theory of evolution. Many such incidents have
taken place since it was first proposed. The German biologist
Ernst Haeckel drew false pictures of embryos in order to sup-
port Darwin. British evolutionists mounted an orangutan jaw
on a human skull and exhibited it for some 40 years in the

British Museum as "Piltdown man, the greatest evidence for